The merits and shortcomings of plastic reflect humanity’s own virtues and limitations. To govern our daily lives we have created durable materials. From bronze, to iron, to plastics, we have challenged Nature’s own transformative powers. In our desire to control Nature, we invented a tool to separate us from it. Plastic’s primary function is separation. Its property to isolate, contain, protect inner from outer matter provides solutions to many human needs. Its durability or resistance to degradability, on the other hand, represents a threat to living organisms. While seemingly protecting flowers, the synthetic “shroud” eventually destroys their organic beauty. Only light, it seems, has a chance to play on both sides of the translucent barrier.

“Flowers” is a metaphor for how civilisation separates us from our primordial nature.